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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Why not?
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I'm not sure really. I liked Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, and I like what Jonny Greenwood's been doing. I liked their last album, and felt that it corrected for a few of the mistakes of In Rainbows by channeling krautrock (the In The Basement version is better than the actually King of the Limbs album, in my opinion) ... I liked their "SPECTRE" song, and think that if MGM had used it, the movie would have been significantly better.
But I feel like it's been so long that it would be really tough for them to make another really brilliant record I guess. I don't have any real solid reason for feeling this way, but I kinda do. They took a six year break after releasing albums pretty regularly for almost 20 years. It just makes me wonder if their time has passed. I could be wrong, and hope I am. But in the past six years a lot of their albums have started to sound dated. I think the only ones that really still hold up are Kid A and Hail to the Thief, and parts of OKC. They're going to have to pull a Portishead circa 2008 to make this work, which means a full overhaul of their sound. And from what I've read, some very old songs are rumored to be on the new album.
I wish 'em the best.